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It wasn't unnoticed by the mainstream media. I heard about it yesterday or the day before. This was published in the NY Times yesterday.

Meredith Attwell Baker, one of two Republicans on the Federal Communications Commission, was not on Comcast’s payroll when she voted to approve its controversial acquisition of NBC Universal, the television powerhouse. But she soon will be. Four months after she endorsed the deal — chastising the F.C.C. for delaying its approval and imposing too many conditions on the merger — she has been hired to be NBC’s top Washington lobbyist.

Watching "Capitalism A Love Story" on Sunday put me in a bad mood. The "In-n-Out" burger thread helped a bit by pushing my nostalgia button. This news has me in a bad mood again. Arghhhhh! I'm thinking a long boondocking trip is in order about now.

Perhaps we can avoid any political references...the point of the original information is that it appears an FCC regulator who participated in a large industry merger approval migrated to the company they approved a short time after that was completed.

There is no indication anything illegal or inappropriate occurred, however, since the Comcast position didn't likely happen overnight...it would seem reasonable to question any conflict of interest scenarios.

I suspect those will be reviewed and perhaps investigated to some level.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, a key investigative body of Congress. This afternoon, Issa finally decided that the committee would probe FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker's move from the FCC to a top government affairs job at Comcast/NBC Universal.

In a letter sent to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, Issa noted that Baker's departure has “generated questions” due to the fact that Baker recently voted to allow Comcast to buy a majority stake in NBC. Based on Baker's own statements about the process which led to the job offer, Issa says that "it does not appear [Baker] violated any of her legal or ethical obligations in accepting a position with Comcast.”

Still, “because only a short time has passed since the Comcast-NBC Universal merger, it is imperative that the public can trust the integrity of the process." To that end, Issa wants answers to five basic questions in order to “gain a better understanding of the rules that govern Commissioner Baker's departure."